Adam Lallana: Improving under Klopp but still with work to do

Until his substitution, he and Roberto Firmino had been running City ragged.

You can also watch the video at the bottom of the article. And the Normal One simply is not getting Liverpool back on track and its performance at Etihad was a proof that Liverpool are definitely improving under Klopp, which trusts the players that he is playing in the starting eleven. “We tried to fight, but continued making so many mistakes with the ball”. This was the first step in this game.

“We worked well during the week, I don’t believe the way we played”. “It was all we needed from tonight and the lads did well”, he added.

“We scored four goals and we must have had three or four other one on ones with their keeper”. Simon Mignolet had no chance. Klopp has a lot of energy in himself and he expresses them on the field and he expects his team to do the same.

“If you are stuck in the forest and it’s dark and you are afraid and someone tells you not to be then it doesn’t work”, he said. We have so many quality players and we can beat anybody if we are 100 per cent focused. “Many things we can do better when we train more often together”.

“We press in different ways depending on who we’re playing against and how we play”.

The newspaper says Liverpool are seeking a second opinion meaning that Coutinho will undergo further medical checks today to determine the full extent of the problem before the club place any time-frame on his recovery.

Asked if he felt he was fouled by Coutinho in the build-up, Sagna said: “To me it is a foul because he clearly pushed me, but the game kept going and we conceded a goal”. He’s always there at the side of the pitch, I love his enthusiasm, it’s like he goes on the pitch with them – he’s like a twelfth man.

Pellegrini has insisted the Citizens quickly forget about the game and turn their attention to Wednesday’s Champions League tie away at Juventus. He is in the game and you know he is there with you and wants you to do well. Christian, when he came in, was brilliant.

To have Sturridge on the bench, and you don’t have to bring him in, because four days in training is nothing. Now we are in a better way than two weeks ago and we have to go ahead. We need him as a target and he came very deep. “That’s all. If you want you can write it in your job, it’s cool, but I don’t want to talk about it”, he said.

“I think it is something that opposition teams will be looking at and thinking that if they play quick they might be able to expose that”. In just 12 games he’s already matched his goal scoring total for last season, and five goals is his best for one season at Liverpool.

“I do not think that it changes, though, a few fundamental problems they still have – when Vincent Kompany does not play, you can see that they struggle at the back”.